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lundi 28 octobre 2024, 01:01
Linus has released 6.12-rc5 for testing. rc5 looks perfectly normal, and maybe even on the small side of normal. The diffstat looks nice and flat too, with the exception of the removal of the da8xx fbdev driver due to it having been replaced by the tilcdc driver. And I'm...
vendredi 25 octobre 2024, 21:39
A pair of talks in the toolchains track at the 2024 Linux Plumbers Conference covered different tools that can be used to optimize the kernel. First up was Maksim Panchenko to describe the binary optimization and layout tool (BOLT) that Meta uses on its production kernels....
Security updates have been issued by Debian (distro-info-data), Fedora (libtiff), Mageia (firefox and oath-toolkit), Red Hat (krb5), and SUSE (openssl-1_1).
jeudi 24 octobre 2024, 17:36
Small objects can lead to large email threads. In this case, the GNU C Library (glibc) community has been having an extensive debate over the handling of zero-byte allocations. Specifically, what should happen when a program calls realloc() specifying a size of zero? This...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana, NetworkManager-libreswan, python3.11, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Fedora (dotnet6.0, koji, python-fastapi, python-openapi-core, python-platformio, python-starlette, rust-pyo3, rust-pyo3-build-config,...
mercredi 23 octobre 2024, 19:40
Currently in Rust, there is no efficient and safe way to turn an array of bytes into a structure that corresponds to the array. Changing that was the topic of Jack Wrenn's talk this year at RustConf: 'Safety Goggles for Alchemists'. The goal is to be able to 'transmute'...
Version 14.0 of the privacy-focused Tor browser has been released. This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 128, incorporating a year's worth of changes shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit,...
Jakub Kadlčík announced on his blog that Fedora's Copr build system will be dropping support for building modules (groups of RPM packages that are built, installed, and shipped together) soon: The Fedora Modularity project never really took off, and building modules in...
In July, at the GNOME annual general meeting (AGM), held at GUADEC 2024, the message from the GNOME Foundation board was that all was well, financially speaking. Not great, but the foundation was on a break-even budget and expected to go into its next fiscal year with a...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dmitry, libheif, and python-sql), Fedora (suricata and wireshark), SUSE (cargo-c, libeverest, protobuf, and qemu), and Ubuntu (golang-1.22, libheif, unbound, and webkit2gtk).
Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development kernel was the removal of several entries from the kernel's MAINTAINERS file. The patch performing the removal was sent (by Greg Kroah-Hartman) only to the patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list; the change ...
mardi 22 octobre 2024, 21:20
The Image-Based Linux Summit has by now established itself as a yearly event. Following on from last year's edition, the third edition was held in Berlin on September 24, the day before All Systems Go! 2024 (ASG). The purpose of this event is to gather stakeholders from...
The kernel's CPU scheduler currently offers several preemption modes that implement a range of tradeoffs between system throughput and response time. Back in September 2023, a discussion on scheduling led to the concept of 'lazy preemption', which could simplify scheduling...
The AlmaLinux project has introduced a new edition called 'Kitten', which will serve as 'the direct upstream for AlmaLinux OS and is the primary point for the AlmaLinux community to engage and influence the future of AlmaLinux OS'. Not intended for production use, the first...
The 6.11.5, 6.6.58, 6.1.114, 5.15.169, and 5.10.228 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Version 3.4.0 of the OpenSSL SSL/TLS library has been released. It adds a number of new encryption algorithms, support for 'directly fetched composite signature algorithms such as RSA-SHA2-256', and more. See the release notes for details.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, ghostscript, libsepol, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, perl, and python-sql), Oracle (389-ds-base, buildah, containernetworking-plugins, edk2, httpd, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel,...
lundi 21 octobre 2024, 20:20
Sasha Levin has announced a new tree that is intended to perform continuous-integration tests of pull requests aimed at the mainline. The plan is for this tree to hold more finished work than sometimes ends up in linux-next; in a name that seems destined to create...
Version 1.1.0 of the bootc utility for performing transactional, in-place operating system updates using Open Container Initative (OCI) images, has been released. This release 'officially stabilizes all APIs' for bootc and includes a number of bug fixes. LWN covered bootc in ...
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